17 One of the people in the crowd answered, "Rabbi, I brought my son to you. He has an evil spirit that prevents him speaking.
25 Jesus, seeing that the crowd was closing in,9:25. Or "running together." This word is only used once in the New Testament. commanded the evil spirit, "Spirit that causes deafness and dumbness, I order you to come out of him and never return."
26 The spirit screamed and threw the boy into severe convulsions. Then the spirit came out of the boy and left him for dead—to the extent that many of the people said, "He’s dead."
27 But Jesus took the boy by the hand and helped him up, and he got to his feet.